SOUTH AFRICA: Noble Son

The imposing, athletic black man wearing a red, white and blue track suit
and white sneakers looked like a touring pro basketball star, but the crowds knew better.
Instantly recognizing their visitor as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, black Africans reached
out to touch the American civil leader as he made his way among the shacks and
shanties that are home to more than 1 million people in the black township of Soweto,
near Johannesburg. Earlier, Jackson had addressed a group of residents at
Crossroads, a famed squatter community on the outskirts...